My K-Class machine is nearing completion now, and sofar I've got 6 200mhz Procs in it w/4GB RAM (still need drives & a power cable though). I was just wondering, will I be able to use SMP on this rig? It is a K570.

My only concern is that SMP doesn't seem as fast as I thought it would be- with 6*200mhz Procs and MAKEOPTS="-j7", GCC took over 7 hours to build. In particular when it runs the configure scripts (checking for <bla bla>...), it is painfully slow.

I'm not sure if its actually working or what- compiling the kernel took about the same time as on a Uniprocessor kernel.

The kernel does indeed find the 6 Procs, /proc/cpuinfo shows 6x 200mhz 899/K570 CPU's, and PDC shows all 6 units as functional. The box is sucking up the amperes and generating some heat, so they are doing something...

Could you please post your kernel .config file, I have a K260 SMP which gives me kernel panic when using my own kernel, but it works fine with the UP kernel shipped with the Gentoo CD. I guess I must have done something wrong...

Hard to see, and I still haven´t figured out how to scroll back on my HP console.
However it is somewhere after scanning the SCSI buses and detectin the disk partitions, I´m afraid that is not to exact but ....